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For Macro Mondays - Abstract.
Bird of Paradise leaf transilluminated by mid-day sun. A second leaf behind is casting a shadow - both are moving in the breeze...
This detail is 2.5 inches in greatest dimension.
1948 Tucker
Some might say that Preston Tucker was a genius, and whether that's true, or not, is certainly debatable. But, I think we all could agree that he was a visionary with his car, and it's design. Advanced concepts that would take years and even decades for other car manufacturers to follow suit with, if at all. Air cooled rear engines, front wheel drive, electric assist manual transmission shifter, safety features largely unheard of in production cars at the time. Features like pop out windshield in the event of an accident, disc brakes, seat belts, padded dash, front right passenger safety zone, a third headlight that moved as the car turned, surely, I missed some. Some of these already had found a home in his first effort, the '48, and if he had remained in business his later models would have included those items not yet on the 48. The car I will show over the next series of shots was present at the annual Lime Rock Labor Day event in '24. It happens to be the 44th one produced out of the 51 he made before he, and his company got into trouble. The Big 3 had to be threatened by Preston's dream car, and one has to wonder what role they had played in Tucker's eventual demise? What made seeing this car special at the show was a chance to meet and talk with Tucker's great grandsons, twins I believe, and they had brought number 44 to the show.
The number is not the number of cats I have. They are numbered to give an overview and a differentiation possibility.
After getting shut out at Glacier Point for a number of years, I was finally rewarded with some great light on my last visit. I started shooting as soon as the first bit of color stole across the sky and eventually the entire Western end of the valley was lit up. The irony here was that I was hoping there would be few to no clouds on this particular trip as I was there to shoot the Milky Way, along with quite a few other photographers. As I set up my tripod, I overheard a park ranger giving a lecture behind me on where the Milky Way WOULD be if you could, in fact, see it. I was starting to feel pretty depressed at this point as I had made multiple trips to Glacier point without much to show for it. Two summers ago I was smoked out by a huge fire, last year too many clouds for the Milky Way, and multiple trips in between with no sunset or sunrise. As I stared sulkingly off into the horizon, I noticed a faint bit of color in the clouds. Within just a few minutes the entire sky had lit up and the poor ranger was left with only a handful of people as the crowd moved en masse to the railing and began shooting like mad.
The Milky Way was a no show that night, but at least I walked away with my first decent sunset at Glaicer Point in four years. I'll be headed back to try the Milky Way at least one more time this year, so fingers crossed!
For more photos from Yosemite this Summer, please feel free to visit The Resonant Landscape where you fill find recent posts from the Sierras, Fern Ledge, Joshua Tree/Milky Way, Great Falls Park in Va, and tips for shooting Washington DC.
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5x7 watercolor. Ok, I loved Liz's cow paintings so much I wanted to try to paint something fun like hers. It's not beautiful and loose like hers but I had fun.
aki otro asalto a la realidad de maldita historieta sin sientido, eskuxando sin dios y ke wea rebentando la neurona neutral para dar paso a las convulsionadas, deskiciadas, blasfemas, herejes, refractarias de esta sociedad.
SIN SENTIDO, asalto a la realidad, un kalko de los dias y las noches, de las pulsiones y las represiones. MATA AL POLICIA KE LLEVAS DENTRO
pronto en la web!!!
I have a number of appointments today and for the next three days. I'm pretty certain that I'll have time to post and make comments, but I'm not really sure since two of the appointments are about my eye (much, much better, but not entirely in focus). Nine weeks without driving, and my car's battery is dead! That's just insult to injury...
Heather Farm has a rose garden. Although I started to find roses "mundane" even in 2006, there is nothing mundane about some roses, especially these. I don't know anything about roses other than that they're beautiful, especially in a pristine state as these were.
Firenze, Italia
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We can't tell much / about the condition at number 2. // The door has not been opened / in the past two months.
Number 2 in my Gates theme for this week. Wonky well used gates to a wonky but beautiful church. ole Park, Kent, UK taken in 2012.
Finally.
After spotting this fox a few times, I was finally able to get a number of decent shots of him. He took notice of me a number of times but was comfortable enough with my distance and presence, to keep hunting for a mid-morning snack.
What helped tremendously was the time spent the day before doing some major micro adjusting with this lens for the 90D. My copy, suffers from severe front focus with any lens I've tried.
After spending a full day performing the micro adjustments, I wanted to test it out. Patience and perseverance certainly paid off as I was able to significantly increase my keeper rate with this camera.
Previous attempts were done with the EOS-R and 800mm F11 but something really weird was happening with the photos when I tried getting shots of the fox before. that rendered all photos unusable. It has only ever happened on the mirrorless system so I knew I wanted to go back to a DSLR.
Needless to say, loads of excitement to have stumbled upon another opportunity to capture this fox and to walk away with a number of keepers.
- Tyler Arboretum 2021
Another entrance to the amazing house of nooks and crannies in Novelty, Ohio. This is the newer portion of the house. It's possible that my friend either made the stained glass window himself or found it when they were tearing down a building somewhere ... He's been known to do both, and it makes for a whimsically enchanting place to live. Also note how the trees are reflecting in the regular glass window.
This cottage on the Blickling Estate in Norfolk is over 200 years old and presumably once provided accommodation for an estate worker. It doesn’t appear to have a name or street identity and even on the listed building register it is just shown as 8!
I am not sure if it is currently occupied as it does seem in need of some repairs especially to gable end. Nonetheless, a nice place to live, just a bit of TLC required!
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Number: CT-1579/60
Rank: ARC Lieutenant Grade 1
Alias: Carnage
2nd Regiment of the 253rd Legion
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We deployed late, but met up with the 1st Regiment to descend into the lower levels so we could at least complete one objective. Ever since the last mission I've been feeling a little... off .
Valor, Buck and I started searching through the files, trying to get what we could about this weapon.
BDEW!
The shot barely missed me.
Droids, more of them. I started firing my blaster, taking out the droids that were threatening to flood into the room.
//"Carnage" CT-1579/60: Hurry up, more are on the way and I don't know how long I can hold them off.
Buck nodded, signaling that we got what was needed. We headed out, taking out what was left of the oncoming droids.
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Trashy log, trashy picture, but it's better than nothing. I felt sorry for not being more active in the group that was the reason I started posting. Next build will be waaaayyy better, don't worry.
-Andrew
Yesterday evening I was taking some pictures around on the way back home.
And then it happened. It's always a joy, when you discover a sudden urban hero in the crowd, someone whose narrative and style evoke a whole story and atmosphere.
She was on a riding bus.I only had one second. No time to think. No time to adjust and prepare your camera. She was to me the personification of the Seventies, of wonderful psychedelic night parties, of busy and lively streets of other times, of colourful and vibrant rock concert.
So, it happened. Click. The bus was gone, with its nostalgic reminiscences.
Thank you unknown hero for your present :)
Located in Rockport (Massachusetts, USA) this place is known as "the most often painted building in North America".
Since the 1960s, the number of blackcaps which spend winter in the UK has grown and grown. It's no longer a rare sight to see them in your garden in the middle of winter.
Just what are they doing? Surely blackcaps should be heading for warmer climes? After all, the UK's no place for a warbler in winter...
We've known for a while that the blackcaps that come to Blighty for winter tend to have been hatched or breed in southern Germany. We found that out from ringing, where birds are fitted with a uniquely-numbered, lightweight metal ring which can be read and reported if they're found or caught again.
Martin Schaefer and his colleagues at the University of Freiburg have been studying two blackcaps in two areas of Germany, 500 miles (800 km) apart. Birds which spent winter in Spain had more in common genetically with their Spanish sun-loving counterparts in the other population than they did with their UK-wintering neighbours which bred in the same area!
The scientists reckon that it could mean that the Spanish and UK-wintering groups of blackcaps could be on their way to becoming two different species. And the reason? People in the UK putting out plenty of bird food have made spending the winter here a viable option for blackcaps. The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) usually known simply as the blackcap, is a common and widespread typical warbler. It has mainly olive-grey upperparts and pale grey underparts, and differences between the five subspecies are small. Both sexes have a neat coloured cap to the head, black in the male and reddish-brown in the female. The male's typical song is a rich musical warbling, often ending in a loud high-pitched crescendo, but a simpler song is given in some isolated areas, such as valleys in the Alps. The blackcap's closest relative is the garden warbler, which looks quite different but has a similar song.
Here are two more pictures from my recent stay in London, an opportunity I used to continue working on my long-term project titled Urban Serendipity. Some people have asked me about the meaning of serendipity. According to Webster's dictionary, it means "the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for." Today’s photos were taken in Broadgate Circle in the City of London, very close to Liverpool Street – Broadgate Circle, London, UK